July 13, 2006

Yay! I can't count the number of times this week I tried to open Spofi, without even thinking. When it came up this morning, I stared at it, like I'd never seen it before. I miss you time-sucking bastards.

The temptation to post on MeFi instead was sooo strong: First to ask where the hell SpoFi had gone, and second to curse Trevor Hoffman and the day he was born. Perhaps it's a testament to my self-restraint that I didn't. Anyway, great to see y'all again.

Oh. My. God. That was a strange couple of days. Very personally revealing. And professionally. On another note - Deadspin: Tries very hard to be funny and often succeeds. But not a good spot for actual sports discussion. Is Barbaro dead yet? I can't wait.

I now have a much better grasp of my learning curve in Hold'em Poker and Sudoku. I went from "completely suck" to "pretty much suck" in just a few days. Maybe there needs to be a backup mini-blog-type site for grousing about SpoFi being down (plus, maybe some updates on progress and whatnot)?

Now that the server's back, I can tell you this: def r(a):i=a.find('0');~i or exit(a);[m in[(i-j)%9*(i/9^j/9)*(i/27^j/27|i%9/3^j%9/3)or a[j]for j in range(81)] or r(a[:i]+m+a[i+1:])for m in'%d'%5**18] from sys import*;r(argv[1])So that clears Sudoku up.

Dang Fatty, that Python is almost Perl. But you had to go and stick in the carriage returns. That is the third time in my life I have seen those exact same sentences in print, word for word. The first time was a short story about a baby snake at a pet store. The second time was captioning for an Asian porn flick. Huh.

Do you mean to say that 5 days of a spofi-less internet has slowed down douchebaggery on the site? Or were you just tired of BullpenPro's shotty sudoku playing? I was thinking of the World Cup and Wimbledon, actually. And a li'l Tour de France.

So, uh, Sammy, you're a fan of the Habs now? NoMich, why kick a man when he's down? For why NoMich? For because, I suppose. You realized that this is my worst nightmare since I had that one where I was in a bakery that I'd never seen before and all of the bread was shaped like giant penises and I looked down and I had taken a number and the lady behind the counter asked me if I was there for the bread or if I was there to be a bread model and I got so confused and scared that I didn't know what to say and I just sat down on the floury bakery floor and cried and cried and cried. When I woke up, one of my roommates asked me if I wanted French Toast, and I just couldn't because of that awful, awful bakery in my head. Thanks for being a jerk about it. For the record, I'd rather be a model for cock-bread than have to watch Samsonov score on the Bruins. Samsonov will be good for 60 points this year, and I hope he does well. He always entertains. If there is any justice in this universe, you will have a dream where Eric Cole does something unmentionable to a member of your family.

3 seconds, 9 seconds, and 57 seconds. I may be mistaken on the intermediate score (might have been 11), but the others I remember clearly- I've done 3 on more than a few occasions. I used to be a minesweeper junkie way back in the day. Feel free to bask in my awesomeness!!!